"This publication was partly financed by a printing subsidy from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Responsibility for future generations : scope and limits / Dieter Birnbacher -- Principles of generational justice / Christoph Lumer -- The impossibility of a theory of intergenerational justice / Wilfred Beckerman -- John Rawls on rights of future generations / Claus Dierksmeier -- Justice between generations / Michael Wallack -- Rule change and intergenerational justice / Axel Gosseries, Mathias Hungerbühler -- The economic sustainability indicator / Peer Ederer, Philipp Schuller and Stephan Willms -- Protecting future generations : intergenerational buck-passing, theoretical ineptitude and a brief for a global core precautionary principle / Stephen M. Gardiner -- Institutional determinants of public debt : a political economy perspective / Bernd Süssmuth and Robert K. von Weizsäcker -- Establishing intergenerational justice in national constitutions / Joerg Chet Tremmel -- A constitutional law for future generations : the 'other' form of the social contract : the generation contract / Peter Häberle -- The French Constitutional Charter for the environment : an effective instrument? / Dominique Bourg -- Commission for Future Generations in the Knesset : lessons learnt / Shlomo Shoham and Nira Lamay -- Institutional protection of succeeding generations : Ombudsman for Future Generations in Hungary / Benedek Jávor -- The role of CPB in Dutch economic policy / Rocus M. van Opstal and Jacqueline Timmerhuis -- Intergenerational justice / Emmanuel Agius.

This Handbook provides a detailed overview of various issues related to intergenerational justice. Comprising articles written by a distinguished group of scholars from the international scientific community, the Handbook is divided into two main thematic sections--foundations and definitions of intergenerational justice and institutionalization of intergenerational justice.